Description
We are seeking a Partnership Manager to join our team at Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd, a leading retail organisation in the UK.
As a Partnership Manager, you will be responsible for managing defined areas of a strategic supplier partnership, connecting people, services, and priorities across various functions, including technology, outsourced business operations, HR, Finance, Data, and Commercial.
Your main objectives will be to:
- Review service performance, investigate issues, and prepare insights for partnership forums
- Work with senior stakeholders to agree on necessary actions and ensure commitments, risks, and improvement actions are understood and followed through
- Translate contractual commitments and business cases into measurable outcomes, using operational and financial data to challenge constructively and identify opportunities for improvement
- Help turn change into practical action, working across teams to build understanding, overcome challenges, and maintain momentum
To be successful in this role, you will need to have:
- Proven experience managing supplier partnerships, accounts, services, or commercial relationships within a complex, matrix organisation
- Demonstrable experience managing governance, service measures, performance reporting, and improvement plans
- Evidence of influencing stakeholders across organisational boundaries, including senior stakeholders
- Demonstrable commercial understanding of contractual obligations, cost drivers, value opportunities, and risk
- Evidence of interpreting operational, financial, and performance data to recommend action and prioritise delivery
We offer a competitive salary, plus benefits, including:
- Colleague discount of 10% on shopping at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU, and Habitat
- Pensions scheme and life cover
- Performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary
- Annual holiday allowance and private healthcare
- Other benefits, such as season ticket loans, interest-free car loan, cycle-to-work scheme, and health cash plans
This role can be based from any of our Store Support Centres (London, Coventry, or Manchester), with the rest of your time working from home. There are no set office days, with office attendance and store visits expected around once a week on average.